Wednesday, June 25, 2014

From a Muncie Star-Pressopinion piece by Larry Riley, who teaches in the Department of English at Ball State:

One can’t help but conclude the Indiana Supreme Court simply was out to get Michael J. “Mick” Alexander, local attorney who last week got handed down a disciplinary action of 60 days suspension from practice.

The case had dragged on and on, and the complaint itself goes back to actions from 10 years ago to start with.

A judge appointed by the Supreme Court, after a hearing in Richmond, wrote a lengthy recommendation in March that Alexander receive only a public reprimand for several transgressions.

One was allowing a disbarred attorney to perform some legal-related work in his office in 2003, another a failure to tell opposing counsel in a trial what a witness they already had deposed would testify to during a 2003 trial.

A former two-term county prosecutor who since became perhaps the most prominent criminal defense attorney in East Central Indiana, Alexander has no doubt made a lot of enemies over the years.

You’re in real trouble, though, when state Supreme Court jurists, who ignored the hearing officer’s recommendation, are after your hide.